Category: People
Lew Wallace – Failed Commander, Successful Novelist
“Redemption wasn’t just a theme of Wallace’s famous story, it was a concept very much at play in the author’s own life.” EASTER WAS THE motivation behind this Slate profile of Major General Lew Wallace, author…
“Dear Mom, I Miss You!” – 1,800-Year-Old Letter Home From Roman Soldier Translated
“His emotions are really no different than those of soldiers today who are longing to go home.” AN AMERICAN GRADUATE student has translated fragments of a letter written by a 3rd Century Roman soldier, according to…
The Wild Geese – A Brief History of Ireland’s ‘Foreign Armies’
“The St. Patrick’s were actually just one of a long list of Gaelic regiments to serve in other countries’ armies over the centuries.” ON SEPT. 21, 1846, General Zachery Taylor‘s American Army of Occupation stormed the Mexican…
Eugene Bullard – The First African-American Combat Pilot Was a Hero in France But Forgotten in the U.S.
“Despite his acclaim in France, Bullard received virtually no recognition in America.” EUGENE JACQUES BULLARD may have been the 6,950th French military pilot to earn his wings during World War One, but he’s remembered as history’s…
Culture Wars – Meet Nazi Germany’s ‘Monuments Men’
“From the very outset of the Second World War, Axis agents fanned out across the occupied territories in an epic campaign to snatch up Europe’s paintings, statues, artifacts and ancient manuscripts.” The Monuments Men, George…
Meet Wilmer McLean – One of the Civil War’s First and Last Victims
“The war exacted a heavy toll on McLean’s business.” WILMER MCLEAN WAS was too old to fight in the American Civil War. But that didn’t stop the 47-year-old Virginia farmer and merchant from finding himself…
